And since it is our intention, in order to let Your
Worships have the more information and satisfaction
touching this voyage, to dispatch to the Netherlands
again in the last return-ships sailing from here, the
ex-leader of the expedition, Skipper Willem de Vlaming
Senior, together with his upper-steersman Michiel
Blom, they having not yet returned from Bengal with
their ships Geelvinck and Nijptang, but being expected
every day, therefore we shall not trouble Your Worships
with further particulars, but would beg leave to refer
you to their verbal reports for ampler information
touching their experiences in the said expedition...

In the Castle of Batavia, on the last day of November,
1697.

B.

Journal kept by Skipper WILLEM DE VLAMINGH on his
voyage with the ships de Geelvinck, Nijptang and T’Weseltje
via Trestan da Cunha, the Cape, the islands of Peter
and Paul, and the South-land to Batavia, begun on May
3, 1696, and ended March 20, 1697. [*]

[* This is the only journal of this voyage that I
have found in the Old Colonial Archives at the Hague.
I have not printed it here—­so far as the
South-land is concerned, it wil be found printed in
LEUPE, Zuidland, pp. 153-184—­for two reasons:
1st because it differs only slightly from a journal
of the voyage printed in 1701, of which MAJOR, Terra
Australis, pp 120-133 gives a translation; and 2nd,
because the two charts immediately following in the
text (Nos. 13 and 14) give an excellent survey of
the results of this voyage of discovery.]

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C.

Chart of the South-land, made and surveyed by Willem
De Vlamingh in 1696-1697. [*]

[* This chart was not made on the voyage, but is the
work of ISAAC DE GRAAFF, cartographer to the E.I.C.
from 1690 to 1714.]

[Map No. 13. Kaart van het Zuidland, bezeild
door Willem De Vlamingh in 1696-1697 door ISAAC DE
GRAAFF (Chart of the South-land, made and surveyed
by Willem De Vlamingh in 1696-1697)]

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D.

Chart of the Malay Archipelago, the north- and
west-coasts of Australia, etc. [*]

[* This chart is likewise the work of ISAAC DE GRAAFF
(1690-1714). It gives a survey of the results
of De Vlamingh’s voyage, and may also do duty
as a general record of the Dutch discoveries on the
north- and west-coast of Australia in the 17th century.
The dotted (uncertain) line on the N.W. coast is supplemented
by the chart of Van der Wall’s discovery in
1678 (No. 11).]